Overview

In this shocking and beguiling novel, Robert Schneider has created a world that is utterly seductive and utterly original. Could the greatest musician of all time live his life in a peasant village and never be discovered by the world? Set against the mystical and bizarre backdrop of a remote Alpine village in the early nineteenth century, this astounding novel tells the story of Elias Johannes Alder, a musical genius with supernatural hearing who develops his talent in secret midnight sessions at the church organ. A spiritual descendant of Patrick Suskind's Perfume, Brother of Sleep moves inexorably towards tragedy as Elias is undone by his intense feeling for Elsbeth, the woman he loves.

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'The novel's provocative themes and imagery carry it a long way' The New York Times Book Review 'A strange, rich story - The writing draws much of its power from the strangeness of the setting' Los Angeles Times 'A phantasmagorical tall story in which images of startling beauty and shocking cruelty tumble from the mouth of the sly, buttonholing narrator. It leaves you fascinated, appalled and deeply moved' Time Out

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Robert Schneider is a novelist and playwright who has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the prestigious Robert Musil Prize of the City of Vienna. Brother of Sleep was adapted by Schneider into an acclaimed film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier.

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